There is a king.He has a prisoner and the king gave him a choise he said"prisoner if you say any thing true I will chop your head off;and if you say any thing thats a lie I will hang you".The prisoner does not want any of these punishments,so what will the prisoner say to save himself from either of these punishments
2006-11-26 13:35:24 · 27 answers · asked by harshabandi 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
if the prisoner is silent he will get killed
2006-11-26 13:44:13 · update #1
you are going to hang me, if this is true he cant chop his head off becuase he has to hnag him but it cant be lie if he hangs him, so either way well u get the picture yadda yadda yadda... and it ends
2006-11-26 13:49:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The prisoner says hang me which the king will think as a lie so he decides to hang the prisoner but this will make the prisoner's statement true so the king will then have to decide to to chop the prisoner's head off but this will then make the prisoner's statement a lie. The king is now unable to decide whether it is true or a lie so he lets the prisoner go!!
2006-11-26 16:36:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The prisoner says, "you will hang me."
because if the statement was true, then he would have the have his head chopped off, but by doing so, his statement would have been false.
Because neither option applied anymore, the King was forced to let the prisoner go.
At least that's my guess...it was a very tricky riddle though, it kept me thinking for a good while. Well done!
--Monker
2006-11-26 16:18:18 · answer #3 · answered by Monker123456 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The king said "If you say anything....".
To me, this implies that the king was not forcing the prisoner to say anything. So to not get either one of those harsh treatments, the prisoner would just be silent.
Hope that's right.
2006-11-26 13:40:03 · answer #4 · answered by Richard P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-29 13:06:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He would say to the king:
"You will hang me."
If the king does not hang the man, he'd have lied, and would then lead to his hanging. But if the king does hang the man, then he was speaking the truth, which means, he should not be hung!
2006-11-26 15:48:48 · answer #6 · answered by Mayberight 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he cud just say like "MOO" or some single word. it's not a sentence so he can't be lieing or telling the truth.
or he cud ask a question, thats all i can come up with or just not say the words true and lie. who knows what this king is saying.
2006-11-26 13:47:45 · answer #7 · answered by Roxie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The prisoner said something "false"!
2006-11-26 13:47:30 · answer #8 · answered by strange-artist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He can say anything other than "any thing true" or "any thing thats a lie ". So in that case he can say a whole darn lot.......... This is correct if you take it literally. If you don't take it literally he can say "I'm lying". He is not telling the truth because he is not lying about anything but he is not lying because he is "not lying".... it's confusing but I promise its correct... at least to me... think about it. :)
2006-11-26 15:07:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
he said either, "I'm going to live" or "I'm going to die"
That is because if the king kills him it would be true for the second one and false with the first one, and if he lets him live it will be true for the first one or a lie for the second one.
2006-11-26 13:44:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋